Mary And The Witch's Flower Flashback: Taking Flight - SciFiNow - The World's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Magazine
Mary And The Witch’s Flower. Hiromasa Yonebayashi, who was an animator at the studio for 20 years, was trusted enough to direct not one but two features for Ghibli, Arrietty and When Marnie Was There, so in teaming up with producer Yoshiaki Nishimura ( The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya, Howl’s Moving Castle) they make a formidable duo with plenty of experience. For their inaugural feature they looked to a children’s story, The Little Broomstick, by British novelist Mary Stewart, perhaps best known for her Merlin trilogy and romantic thrillers featuring ‘anti-nambi-pamby’ heroines...